I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with
it.  In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then
cleaning up after the result.

What's the right way with aptitude?  How do I not blow away
$SOMEWANTEDPACKAGE correctly?

I'm running sarge.


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